WolframAlpha

WolframAlpha, a powerful new service that can answer a broad range of queries, has become one of the most anticipated Web products of the year.

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WolframAlpha

A new metasearch engine

Weiyi Meng, a professor of computer science at Binghamton University, State University of New York is working on the next, great search engine technology. In the not too distant future....

Asking a questions, such as "What do Americans think of universal health care?" His new search engine will create a report indicating trends in opinion based on what has been posted to the Web. It will give the answer not pages with possible answers.

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Here are a couple of metasearch engines: Allinonenews

MySearchView

Wolfram Alpha Search Engine

A new search engine — called Wolfram Alpha — differs from conventional search engines in that users can ask questions using natural language and the search engine uses "knowledge models" to bring you the right answer.

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OpenKnowledge

Most of the web’s potential can’t be tapped via websites and browsers. A smart toolkit crafted by European researchers to unlock those hidden resources has now been tested in three real-world applications.

Eighteen months ago, the EU-funded OpenKnowledge programme set out to provide internet users with a simple set of tools to find and interact smoothly with trustworthy partners across the web.

OpenKnowledge met this challenge by creating a new computer language, crafting smart solutions to the problem of semantic mapping, and finding ways to ensure that partners are reputable.

The researchers packaged these capabilities into an open-source software kernel that is now freely available on their website.

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OpenKnowledge